Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Longing Quotes

Companionship Daily Life Life Pace Longing Simple Happiness I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

Barack Obama

44th U.S. President

Longing Routine Travel I really miss having a routine because now I've been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

Greta Thunberg

Swedish political activist

Female Experience Longing Motherhood I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

Dustin Hoffman

Admiration Art Imagination Longing Nature Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

Claude Monet

Desire Emotions Longing Passion Yearning Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

Singer-songwriter and poet

Attraction Chong Jing Desire Forbidden Behavior Longing I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

Dolly Parton

American singer-songwriter and actress

Art Creativity Emotion Expression Longing A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost